Netfarma // Pharmacolgist Fernando Fernandez-Llimos Awarded in Brazil
Fernando Fernandez-Llimos, researcher from CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research and professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (FFUP) was distinguished with the Professor Tarcísio José Palhano Award. The award, in its first edition, was established by the Brazilian Society of Clinical Pharmacy with the aim of distinguishing personalities from all over the [...]
JN // Reused Drugs to Treat Cancer Patients
Reusing drugs from other areas to treat cancer and creating simulation studies with data generated from pharmacotherapy and physiology are the main lines of research of the OncoPharma group, led by researcher and professor Nuno Vale from CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. The group integrates the [...]
Oncology Chair Accelerates Research and Innovation in Cancer Treatment
The main objectives of the Invited Chair of Innovation in Oncology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) are promoting research in Oncology and developing new therapies to fight cancer. The new Chair of FMUP is funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and by Janssen Portugal, in a total amount of more than [...]
André Rosa Biscaia: A Family Doctor with a Special Interest in Health Services Research
André Rosa Biscaia is an integrated researcher of the PrimeCare - Primary Health Care Research group, of TL1 - Thematic Line Preventive Health and Societal Challenges, from CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research. Born in Lisbon in 1965, he has lived most of his life in Portugal's capital, with the exception of a year in Paris, where [...]
Fewer Informal Caregivers per Elderly Person Expected in the Coming Years
The ratio of potential informal caregivers for each elderly person is expected to fall sharply throughout Europe in the coming decades, until 2050, but the situation is particularly alarming in Portugal. This is one of the warnings in a study developed by researchers from CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research and the University of Aveiro (UA), published [...]
JN // Number of Caregivers per Elderly Person Will Fall Sharply by 2050
A study by researchers from CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research - and the University of Aveiro warns about the decline in the number of informal caregivers of elderly persons that is expected to occur by the year 2050. Although common throughout Europe, this decrease is even more worrying in Portugal. This work, coordinated by Oscar Ribeiro [...]